eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

The fact that 70 percent of middle school students in a recent study could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web shows that we, as educators, have to do a better job of teaching media literacy in the digital age. Next page: How to ensure students’ media literacy).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. The new NAEP scores have landed as conservatives push to expand private school choice, public schools grapple with budget cuts, culture war skirmishes persist, and chronic absenteeism remains at historically high levels.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Virginia and Rhode Island education officials who joined the event said their states had seen close links between who was chronically absent and who was struggling in school. The coalition highlighted the work happening in Rhode Island, which brought down its chronic absenteeism rate by 5 percentage points during the 2022-23 school year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

The district has 33 schools, ranks in the top 6 or 7 in every category in the state, and is growing by 400 to 500 students per year. Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” says Bill Emerson, assistant superintendent.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Bullying can happen throughout a lifetime but is most common in early adolescence (10-12 years old).

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Some teachers create their own rules, from zero-tolerance approaches like confiscation to more relaxed policies like allowing phones unless a class devolves into chaos, according to Stephan Menasche, a senior at the 3,400-student school in Queens. She was glad that her school rolled out Yondr pouches in fall 2021. It’s exhausting.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m just going to whatever class they send me to,” Holmes says, adding: “If you’re not paying attention, nobody tells you.” Based on her research, the factors that are used to determine how to group students differ depending both on the state and the type of school. I wasn’t even thinking about tracking at all, honestly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. It also helps that kids are most excited about school when they’re young. But it rarely starts any younger.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I began my career teaching middle school in a windowless classroom in south Los Angeles where I wore slacks, heels and blouses. During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies. students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Last year, I conducted a major academic study with Vanderbilt University researchers to test the effectiveness of our approach compared to existing curricular tools.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.” Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. And some barriers are not just about meeting learning goals. The role of the facilitator is key.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. Yet building learning games—and selling them—is an expensive endeavor that tests patience and wallets, as several startups have learned. middle-school market.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. The teachers and counselors in my school have been working harder than ever it seems, but despite our best efforts, the effects of the past two years are palpable. In 2021, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners. We knew we needed high engagement that would capture their attention and foster learning in a different way. Middle schoolers need this kind of structure for familiarity.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. He says test data back that up. The school is drawing attention. But no one stopped this Henry County seventh-grader when he stomped on the gas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention. High school students often have a mix of core subjects, such as math, science, and English, along with electives or advanced placement (AP) courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Learning How to Learn I’ve often heard students tell me they studied for hours on a test only to fail. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test. And by then it’s too late.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Take IQ: While two students could test as having the same IQ, the specific elements of what make up that IQ—knowledge of vocabulary, reading comprehension, quantitative skills—can, and always is, different. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Unlike the typical public high school, this program is selective, meaning classes are much smaller. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher. The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. Meanwhile, In High School and Middle School.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I tell my middle school students, you're going to have to sign applications for high school, for college, for financial aid, for scholarships. That really warmed my heart that youre paying attention to everything that I'm bringing. You never know who's paying attention. And that right there was a surprise.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. Sustaining its success for both students and staff requires continued attention and adjustments as the technology needs of our school community change over time.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She pushed me to test and measure the quantitative and qualitative data I was gathering. In her research, she found a noteworthy amount of attention paid to coaching mentors, but an absence of training provided to mentees. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Surgeon General released a report a year ago about the mental health crisis, specifically what schools can do to help address it, and the importance of school counselors in that process. So I think as administrators and decision-makers see that impact, they're willing to allocate money to ensure these positions are in schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

I believe we’ll see increased attention to students’ mental health and, with it, an increase in the attention paid to the mental health crisis and severely limited resources in our schools. We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And moreover, that intelligence is the kind of lump of stuff that's either bigger or smaller, and we can weigh it through tests and assessments. So I think we need to bring some of that early education spirit of having the body be part of learning into middle school, high school, college, all of that, because we are embodied creatures.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

For instance, what’s the best time to take a test? When the school day is so packed with back-to-back classes and activities, how can students, parents and educators make the best use of time? There’s another study from Denmark, where students take standardized tests on computers. Improvements to standardized test scores.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s no secret many parents are frustrated with public schools. Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests? Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Most of them are referred to our small private school through out-of-district placement, meaning that at the recommendation of the IEP team, the district pays for the student to attend an outside school because there isn’t a school in the district that meets the child’s needs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

School administrators must lead complex organizational changes to create environments that nudge students to be self-directed learners. And inside the classroom, educators still wrestle with behavior issues, short attention spans and all the distractions that come with online tools. I can fail my driver’s test and take it again.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

It’s no surprise that a recent study found that Algebra 1 is the most repeated class in high school, and that both students’ performance on state tests and their grades decrease each time they repeat the course. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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